This is the 21st century?

Un-freakin'-believable is a story from Australia about a blind restaurant customer and his guide dog who were refused entrance to the establishment.

Read the story from the London Daily Mail.

In 2009, Ian Jolly, 57, was trying to enter an Adelaide restaurant and the staff thought he said he had a "gay dog" instead of a "guide dog."

So the enlightened staff refused to allow either Jolly or his dog into the restaurant.

The information came out in a statement to South Australia's Equal Opportunity Tribunal that recently made a ruling in the case.

Jolly will receive a written apology and the Australian equivalent of US$1,000.

Feel free make your own comments. I won't make mine here.

Muffy, come home

Here's a story that will surely make you smile.

Lost dog Muffy was reunited with her owners.

After nine years.

She was found 1,200 miles away.

This is the complete story from the Associated Press.

Inspectors with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were investigating a possible animal cruelty case at a home in the southern city of Melbourne (Australia) two weeks ago when they found the fluffy white mutt sleeping outside on a scrap of cardboard, Victoria state RSPCA spokesman Tim Pilgrim said.

A microchip in Muffy's neck identified her owners, and, after a few days of searching for a current phone number, officials tracked down Natalie Lampard, who hadn't seen Muffy since the pooch disappeared from her backyard in the eastern city of Brisbane nine years ago.

The owners of the house were the dog was found said Muffy was wandering around when they took her in almost a decade ago.

If Muffy could talk, she might have some travel and survival tips we all could learn from.